Species are the evaluated result of the sequence-of or relation-between genes – rather than the simple set-of-all-present genes; in the same way that the causal profile of all universal phenomena is a consequence of the relative structure of respective constituents, rather than just the set. Evaluation upon intersection; distributed through time. #tbc

Well damn – you’re speaking my language Hofstadter good chap… Outstanding. #tbc

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an eventual list of distinction used throughout this site 1 Distinctions include : Map, territory Idea, implementation (implementation plurality) Process, state Objective-state, intermediate-state {staging; iteration} (for evolution, every iteration is objective state – but the objective keeps changing! – ‘intermediates’ is a retrospective term here) Constructor, evaluator (distinct/ two step) Composition, constituent (more is different: fractional accounting; how relative structure {constrains; shapes} inherited {circumstances; potential}) Prior, derivation (more is different: through time; temporal; trend) Essence, substrate (more is different: composed/ relative form/ possibility; material form/ possibility/ scope) Tree, space {material/ aligned/ evaluated/ result; possibility/ scope} Intrinsic, extrinsic (boundary; decoupling) Continuation, discontinuation {alignment; break (symmetry)} Step, sequence (continuation {constraint; structure; behaviour}) Closed, open {progression/ cycle; complete/ release} Director, directed (conditional cross scope translation: territory -> map -> territory) Sequenced, unsequenced {planned, unplanned; directed, undirected; coupled, decoupled} {mutation; potential; constraint} (consider also error checking, evaluation) Individual, system {scientist, science; engineer, engineering} #tbc notably, all interrelate, to compose and describe fundamental mechanisms and scenes thereof ↩︎

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notes: conceptual accessibility, and a formal approach to metaphorical analysis metaphor too much time and effort is spent arguing the merits and pitfalls of individual metaphors, when the root cause – a failure to adequately define and formalise ‘metaphorical-analysis’ – remains unaddressed Undoubtedly, metaphor is innate to human experience, and cognition. ‘There is something that it is’ to intuitively perceive and consider universal phenomena by metaphor – to consider one kind of universal phenomenon in terms of the characteristics of another almost-entirely different kind of phenomenon....

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a follow-up to io - charlie - metaphor Great… this is fun! – Charlie (Charlie Munford @) Yes it is! –i’m enjoying this process! intro Overall, yes I can accept your definition of metaphor as a subset of all arbitrarily produced abstractions…the abstractions that say something important or useful for minds aiming to understand the world. But I think I disagree that there is anything universal about such truths, simply because I think minds are almost infinitely diverse, all the way down to true minds in single cells (and there are single-celled organisms, gut microbiota, in our minds)....

Metaphor is ‘well-formed abstraction’, and not all abstraction is well-formed. Consider metaphor refers to a specific subset of abstraction, such that while all metaphors are abstractions, not all abstractions are metaphors. the metaphor subset of abstraction is subject to increased constraints on membership: the space-of-all metaphor is smaller than the space-of-all abstraction Consider that, what we commonly call a metaphor, is often another special-domain instance of the metaphor – and that what we mean when we use a metaphor, is always the bits which are common between, and never the bits which are uncommon between....

A response to points raised in an email from Charlie Munford @. charlie Thanks for sending your piece “On Cognition and Computation!” (on cognition and computation) Here are a few thoughts, fwiw. Just musing, feel free to interpret however you like. section 1 I think of all communication, including computation, as metaphorical, because it is only a metaphor that can connect two umwelts together. Two organisms have to have some common sort of experience in their respective umwelts for something to be transmitted between them that counts as semantically meaningful....

a post to coordinate thoughts on a mastodon conversation with @[email protected] introduction @themanual https://mastodon.online/@themanual4am/111997350490358955 …I found a deep mapping between the accessibility of science writing and software code, based around the idea of domain translation (see images). Though, I feel the accessibility issues you refer to here are more ’expressive style/ adornment'? Is that right? Can anyone provide examples? 1/ @themanual link Software also includes tools to programmatically detect and remap styles and other presentational characteristics....

—what came before x, and how do we think of x in those terms? recursive importantly, this is not a matter of ‘reductionism’; but decomposition to {respective; relative; essential} general-case, #tbc phenomenal {compositional; temporal} priors; ancestors; etc #rewrite accessibly

notes: on cognition and computation; conceptual accessibility; and a formal approach to metaphorical analysis 1 metaphor too much time and effort is spent arguing the merits and pitfalls of individual metaphors, when the root cause – a failure to adequately define and formalise ‘metaphorical-analysis’ – remains unaddressed Undoubtedly, metaphor is innate to human experience, and cognition. ‘There is something that it is’ to intuitively perceive and consider universal phenomena by metaphor – to consider one kind of universal phenomenon in terms of the characteristics of another almost-entirely different kind of phenomenon 2....

https://mastodon.online/@themanual4am/112064559119407973 conclusion: all special-intelligence extends respective/ relative general-intelligence sister thread to: on cognition and computation introduction A thread on the evolution of biological intelligence. Initial questions : —what are the evolutionary origins of biological intelligence? —what is biological intelligence? —what is neuronal intelligence? —what is non-neuronal cellular intelligence? —how might neuronal and non-neuronal intelligences relate? —what came before non-neuronal intelligence? —what might be common across all kinds of intelligence? 1/...

Phenomenal substrate : Is a ‘phenomenally and temporally relative’ term Refers to the set-of-all circumstances {material; transformational sequence} necessary to construct a phenomenon Encapsulates the set-of-all {permanent; temporary} phenomenal dependencies which must {exist prior; be satisfied in-time 1} to explain the resultant structurally-composed derived form 2 Defines (or instructs) a phenomena-relative incrementally-finite space-of-all possible derived forms Is a metaphor for a well-formed relative general-domain consider the phenomenal substrate of a cathedral : arches, pillars, walls, roof/ ceilings, etc blocks and bricks, timber, metalwork, glass also incidental (or temporal) substrate – like scaffolding, no longer visible, but essential to the present state of construction (and which includes prior forms of substrate composition) —what do we miss by overlooking (persisted, temporal) phenomenal substrate?...

‘useful but not correct’ is fine, as long as we remember each is a distinct special-domain, with equally distinct respective general-domain (or substrate); and as such, we ought not demand correct be framed in terms of useful. the general-domain, or substrate, is necessarily different Useful is totally fine for the first stage of conceptual or phenomenal exploration of {map; territory} – to iterate toward extrinsic compositional alignment, independently of final phenomenal substrate (see: on phenomenal substrate)...

staging {map; territory} To iterate toward extrinsic compositional alignment 1 independently of final phenomenal substrate (see: on phenomenal substrate) (Interface/ signature of) ↩︎